Without those countries’ cooperation, the price cap plan, championed by the Biden administration, would have far less impact. It also could lessen the chances that other major buyers of Russian oil, notably China and India, will go along with the price cap. By reducing supply, the decision by the group known as OPEC Plus, led by Saudi Arabia, was likely to keep global oil prices high, allowing Russia to continue earning significant revenue from its crude exports.
OPEC and its allies, including Russia, announced a sharp reduction in crude output at a meeting in Vienna. Putin’s war machine faced a new hurdle: Global oil producers on Wednesday decided to sharply cut the supply, making Russia’s crude even more valuable on the world market. Tatiana Meel/ReutersīRUSSELS - The European Union was pushing ahead with an ambitious plan to limit Russia’s oil revenue, but the Western effort to drain funding from President Vladimir V. With oil prices at a high, Russia is raking in billions of dollars in revenue, even as it sells smaller quantities. President Volodymyr Zelensky said in August that Russia had fired about 3,500 cruise missiles at Ukraine by that point.Ī crude oil terminal near the port city of Nakhodka, Russia. Military analysts have suggested Russia may running low on long-range missiles after seven months of war and thousands of strikes. Kyiv has also deployed Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drones, capable of firing guided missiles. The United States has supplied Ukraine with Switchblade drones, which are also known as “kamikaze” drones because they are self-destroying. Anti-aircraft units shot down three, Ukrainian jet pilots intercepted another three but the rest got through air defenses, he said. In Wednesday’s attack, Russia launched a swarm of 12 drones from territory it controls in southern Ukraine, Yurii Ihnat, the spokesman for Ukraine’s Air Force, said in an interview on Ukrainian television. Russians have used the drones to obliterate artillery pieces and armored vehicles and to kill and injure soldiers, Ukrainian military officials said. It drops out of the sky without warning and is accurate enough to hit a howitzer or a vehicle parked in the open. The Iranian Shahed-136 “kamikaze” drone is a delta-wing aircraft launched from the back of a flatbed truck that carries a warhead of about 80 pounds. Russia has been targeting electrical power stations, electricity transmission lines, waterworks and other critical infrastructure with long-range weaponry in September as Ukrainian forces routed its soldiers along the front, in what military analysts have suggested is an effort to cripple the economy or undermine support for the war inside Ukraine. The strikes on Bila Tserkva hit infrastructure, Mr. and Iranian officials said in August that Iran had delivered to Russia the first batch of its drones, as part of a larger order totaling hundreds of the weapons. Iran’s Foreign Ministry denied its drones were deployed in Ukraine. Their use in Ukraine marks the first time the weapons have been deployed outside the Middle East, and comes as Moscow finds its arsenal of drones increasingly depleted, with few nations willing to supply it with weapons. In recent weeks, they have emerged as a growing menace on the battlefield, after Tehran began supplying Moscow with the first batch of what is expected to be an order of hundreds of military drones.
The Iranian drones first turned up in Ukraine in August in attacks on armored vehicles and artillery in the country’s northeast. The Ukrainian military said it shot down six others in flight in southern Ukraine. The flurry of drone strikes highlighted Russia’s growing reliance on so-called kamikaze drones supplied by Iran, which blow up on impact, according to Ukrainian officials.Īt least six drones detonated in Bila Tserkva, a town about 50 miles south of Kyiv, Oleksiy Kuleba, head of the regional military administration, said in a post on Telegram. The Russian military flew a dozen self-destructing, Iranian-supplied drones at a town near Kyiv overnight on Wednesday, in what appeared to be the first time such weapons have been used against a target near the Ukrainian capital, which lies hundreds of miles from the front lines. Sergei Supinsky/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images The Russian military detonated self-destructing, Iran-supplied drones at Bila Tserkva, about 50 miles south of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
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